x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup
Reduce the startup time for slave cpus.
Adds hooks for an arch-specific function for clock calibration.
These hooks are used on x86. If a newly started cpu has the
same phys_proc_id as a core already active, uses the TSC for the
delay loop and has a CONSTANT_TSC, use the already-calculated
value of loops_per_jiffy.
This patch reduces the time required to start slave cpus on a
4096 cpu system from: 465 sec OLD 62 sec NEW
This reduces boot time on a 4096p system by almost 7 minutes.
Nice...
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
[fix CONFIG_SMP=n build]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 9f548cb..00eef55 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -207,23 +207,29 @@
* Need to setup vector mappings before we enable interrupts.
*/
setup_vector_irq(smp_processor_id());
+
+ /*
+ * Save our processor parameters. Note: this information
+ * is needed for clock calibration.
+ */
+ smp_store_cpu_info(cpuid);
+
/*
* Get our bogomips.
+ * Update loops_per_jiffy in cpu_data. Previous call to
+ * smp_store_cpu_info() stored a value that is close but not as
+ * accurate as the value just calculated.
*
* Need to enable IRQs because it can take longer and then
* the NMI watchdog might kill us.
*/
local_irq_enable();
calibrate_delay();
+ cpu_data(cpuid).loops_per_jiffy = loops_per_jiffy;
local_irq_disable();
pr_debug("Stack at about %p\n", &cpuid);
/*
- * Save our processor parameters
- */
- smp_store_cpu_info(cpuid);
-
- /*
* This must be done before setting cpu_online_mask
* or calling notify_cpu_starting.
*/